SKETCHES – Ana Marie Pamintuan – The Philippine Star October 3, 2022 | 12:00am Our Asian neighbors used to come to the Philippines to acquire a wide range of skills, from English proficiency to producing high-yield rice and constructing public works infrastructure. The high level of development of the Philippines was surely among the reasons why the Asian Development Bank decided, over three rounds of voting from November to December 1965, to set up its headquarters in the Philippines instead of in Japan, the main proponent of the creation of the ADB. (The Philippines edged out Japan by one vo…